If you were 17 and had a boyfriend like mine

* Caution- watching this video may make you feel like a pederast. Enjoy!

BILLY CORGAN AT HIS GOTHIEST

Recently Jordan and I stayed up late watching The Collected Videos of the Smashing Pumpkins. I feel like I understand the music more now than I ever did.



*I love Billy Corgan's creepy Nosferatu walk in this video.

TALL COWBOYS DANCING FOR YOU

We went to The City last night and saw the always excellent Slim Cessna's Auto Club. I think it's unlike any other live show I have ever seen, being that the audience-performer interaction is pretty much constant (last night one of the singers grabbed an audience member by the teeth) and the whole atmosphere is something more like a tent revival than a country-punk-rockabilly show. I am easily swayed by two tag-team singers OVER 6'2 in full cowboy regalia who dance in formation and constantly refer to each other in their songs.
Last night Munly knocked over both Cooper and I's beers (they were on the stage, granted), then creepily picked the bottles up, intoned something about jesus, poured some out in front of us, and then kissed the mouth of each bottle. Also, he has grown a horrible creepy Hitler moustache! EXCELLENT!

There is nothing like seeing them live, so, I give you the best video of them on Youtube:



(it doesn't really do them justice. Oh well.)


I LOVE TALL MEN WHO DANCE PART II



* it the preface to the "Collected videos of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave says that he and Blixa look like a couple of "drunken gay barristers" the above video.*

Hands tell the story

I have 2,222 pictures on Flickr. I feel like I don't want to add anymore and break up the beautiful aliteration of that number.

Whoops I just did.

I am posting the above picture to show off my beautiful spoon ring that Mykle gave me for Valentine's Day. I just need to find him a dimestore watch now. *sigh*
We wanted spoon rings because they are like us: vintage, classy, recycled or repurposed, used, whimsical.

This picture also shows off the way tattooing is changing my wee little hand (I have small hands. Small and wrinkled. Like a monkey's paw! Kidding.). I hold the tube between my middle and ring finger, and my finger has formed a very large round callous right under the nail of the ring finger. I think it's visible on the picture. The machine rests on it when I tattoo. My little finger has a bump too, in the same place, but smaller. The callouses are often bright red on my white and wrinkled hand (latex gloves and constant sani-wipes do strange things to the skin)at the end of a long day. They are extremely numb though, which is probably a good thing.
When they first started to form I was worried they were blisters or bone spurs or something similarly weird and dangerous. Now I am somewhat proud of them, because they formed through lots of hard work.

I also wrote another article-thing for Paul's excellent online magazine, Is Greater Than. It's about gender in tattoo designs, and I forgot to tell anyone when it was published. Whoops. Maybe it comes from that subconscious "Why would anyone care" stream of thought. Whatever. I bravely push on, writing to no one (except Blaize!).
Please read here:
"Sick Tats Bro"- Tattoo Talk on IS GREATER THAN

More stats: This is my 300th post on this "journal"!

Tomorrow Night

Contrary to the poster's design, this is not a hip hop show (design and concept by Eric Redpath, drawings and rudimentary photoshop by your truly). It will be all acoustic. we are hoping for some good food, paintings of monkeys, and a good showing of fans and art appreciators.